Senescent Decline in Verbal-Emotion Identification by Older Hearing-Impaired Listeners - Do Hearing Aids Help?
Clin Interv Aging
; 15: 2073-2081, 2020.
Article
en En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-33173288
PURPOSE: To assess the ability of older-adult hearing-impaired (OHI) listeners to identify verbal expressions of emotions, and to evaluate whether hearing-aid (HA) use improves identification performance in those listeners. METHODS: Twenty-nine OHI listeners, who were experienced bilateral-HA users, participated in the study. They listened to a 20-sentence-long speech passage rendered with six different emotional expressions ("happiness", "pleasant surprise", "sadness", "anger", "fear", and "neutral"). The task was to identify the emotion portrayed in each version of the passage. Listeners completed the task twice in random order, once unaided, and once wearing their own bilateral HAs. Seventeen young-adult normal-hearing (YNH) listeners were also tested unaided as controls. RESULTS: Most YNH listeners (89.2%) correctly identified emotions compared to just over half of the OHI listeners (58.7%). Within the OHI group, verbal emotion identification was significantly correlated with age, but not with audibility-related factors. The number of OHI listeners who were able to correctly identify the different emotions did not significantly change when HAs were worn (54.8%). CONCLUSION: In line with previous investigations using shorter speech stimuli, there were clear age differences in the recognition of verbal emotions, with OHI listeners showing a significant reduction in unaided verbal-emotion identification performance that progressively declined with age across older adulthood. Rehabilitation through HAs did not provide compensation for the impaired ability to perceive emotions carried by speech sounds.
Palabras clave
Texto completo:
1
Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Percepción del Habla
/
Reconocimiento en Psicología
/
Audífonos
/
Pérdida Auditiva
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
/
Observational_studies
/
Prognostic_studies
Límite:
Adult
/
Aged
/
Female
/
Humans
/
Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Clin Interv Aging
Asunto de la revista:
GERIATRIA
Año:
2020
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Francia
Pais de publicación:
Nueva Zelanda